The Kickstarter project launched on 29 November 2012 with a goal of $7,500. The initial goal was met in less than 24 hours. This project was funded on 24 December 2012, with $108,195 pledged by 2,989 backers.

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The game features Krosp as the main character, piloting a two-legged walker similar to Șoarece (a vehicle Krosp is seen operating in volume 12), but with arms, and using it to battle mechanical mice and maneuver past various death-traps. In an announcement on February 11, 2014, Beeman revealed some details of the game:

Weighing in at 144MB, the app contains:

25MB of high-resolution textures created by the inestimable Cheyenne Wright

Over 200 lines of dialog recorded by Phil and Kaja, along with professional voice actress and chanteuse Kelly Wright (no relation to Cheyenne)

Fifty game levels of deathtraps and deadly mechanical mice (to quote the Castle: "I love these little mechanical mice. They're so cute when they explode!")

A whopping 30,012 lines of code.

The game was officially released on March 25, 2014 in both iOS and Android versions. A YouTube video displaying Android gameplay can be seen here.

However, there were no further updates of any sort from Beeman regarding the project, several backers complained about not receiving their promised program key, and numerous proposed additions (such as a level editor) never materialized. As of 2018, while the Android version of the game is still being advertised for sale on Amazon, the Kickstarter links to the two released versions are no longer functional and Gizmocracy appears to have no working website or contact address.

All of the stretch goals were met. The first stretch goal was met before it was announced; the initial funding goal for the project was met so quickly that the project organizer, Stephen Beeman (who was also the game developer), was taken by surprise.

$12,500 [unlocked] - Android Support (initially this game was announced as being iOS only)

Intended for Android 2.3.3 and up; there may be support for Ouya later.

Will follow the iOS version, hopefully within two months.

Android-specific reward tiers; do not include the paper doll app, but will include a copy of The Rats of Mechanicsburg app.